About
Céline Heuzé

I am a climatologist / physical oceanographer fascinated by the global deep water masses. These form in winter in the polar oceans and then circulate all around the world. They help store carbon and heat from the atmosphere to depth, and mix nutrients and oxygen through the water column. Deep water formation is key for fisheries, climate and even sea level rise. But a lot is still unknown.

After a PhD at the University of East Anglia (UK) on the modelling of Antarctic bottom waters, I moved to Sweden and to North Atlantic deep waters. I am particularly interested in how much heat they carry to the Arctic Ocean, and how they interact with the cryosphere. I study this question using in-situ observations, climate models, and ocean remote sensing.

I am the co-supervisor of two PhD students:
- Wiebke Aldenhoff from Chalmers University of Technology; main supervisor: Leif Eriksson. Project: "Radar remote sensing of sea ice". She is due to complete in December 2019.
- Martin Mohrmann, from my department; main supervisor: Sebastiaan Swart. Project: "The Weddell Polynya: climate beast or just another hole in the ice?". He started in February 2018.

I moved to the Earth Sciences department in October 2018 where I am Assistant Professor / senior lecturer in climatology and teach the following courses:
- From the earth to the sea, 1st year bachelor;
- Earth system science, 3rd year bachelor;
- Climate Modelling (I am course responsible), master level;
- The Arctic in a changing climate, PhD level.